When Airtel came to sponsor netball at the tune of K360 million we were all very impressed because that was a milestone in as far as sports sponsorship was concerned. It was to cover for a national championship as well as the national teams’ international engagements. Sadly, Airtel has announced the withdrawal of this significant […]
The race for the 2016/17 TNM Super League is promising to be another photo finish with three teams — Nyasa Big Bullets, Blue Eagles and Mafco — tying on 45 points with just a few games to wrap up the season. The defending champions, Big Bullets, lead on goal difference of 20 from 37 scored […]
After Malawi national netball team’s excellent performance at the World Fast 5 Series in Melbourne, Australia, Member of Parliament for Dedza East Juliana Lunguzi posted on the Facebook profile hinting that she would like to move a private member Bill that special funding should be set aside to be invested in the development of Malawi […]
They struggled to secure funding to participate at the World Netball Fast 5 Series tournament held in Melbourne, Australia but they are coming back with very good result — position three of six teams. The six teams — Australia, New Zealand, Malawi, England, Jamaica and South Africa — are the world’s best netball team. Except […]
South African club Mamelodi Sundowns have won this year’s Confederation of African Football (Caf) Champions League after beating one of the continent’s top club, Zamalek of Egypt 3-1 aggregate (winning 3-0 at home and losing 0-1 away in Cairo. They have made the Confederation of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) proud and we, as Malawians, […]
The media has reported so much about several unsportmanship conduct of Malawi Defence Force football teams. They have no respect over civilians –whether fellow players or any other stakeholder that is in their way. Earlier this season, a young civilian lost his life after been allegedly beaten by some soldiers following some fracas that happened […]
At the end of the first round, defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets were on a distant 6th position on the TNM Super League table and it seemed like it was going to be a tough ride for them in their title defence. But five games later, they have swiftly moved up the ladder and are […]
Malawi’s football arch rivals, Mighty Wanderers and Big Bullets, are once again scheduled to entertain their faithful this Saturday in the much-anticipated-for Blantyre derby, which in the past three years, the People’s Team have dominated. In 2014, the two bitter rivals met four times in which the Bullets won three times (2-0 twice and 1-0) […]
In 2008, I won a Media Institue of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi Chapter award for my coverage of a South African missionary, Felix Starker, who ventured on a charity cycling adventure from Malawi to South Africa to raise funds to try and get kids off the streets. Starker was touched with the noble work that […]
Of late, Malawian football fans are not doing their clubs any favour. Teams are being heavily punished for the sins of their fans. Just last week, Football Association of Malawi (Fam) found Mighty Be Forward Wanderers guilty of bullying a Mangochi Police FC player and bringing the game of football into disrepute and subsequently fined […]
I attended several pre-match meeting for the TNM Super League in the past two months and in most of them, I noticed that most of the coaches are not up to date with the new development of the changes made to the rules to the beautiful game. The officiating personnel made it known to the […]
In a space of just one week, three big Malawian teams, Mafco FC, Nyasa Big Bullets and Mighty Be Forward Wanderers were fined heavily for being found guilty in an unsporting behaviour. In both incidents, this was all about unnecessary emotional outbursts that could have been avoided if team officials and players were level headed […]
In recent years, there has been resentment towards Malawi Defence Force (MDF) teams mostly because they are accused of intimidating their opponents and usually react violently when they are involved in fracas with civilian teams. Just last season, an innocent life was lost after a match between Big Bullets and Red Lions turned sour after […]
At the Rio Olympic Games, two sisters, Cate and Bronte Campbell are representing Australia but they were born in Malawi — in 1992 and 1994 respectively. Sydney Morning Herald reported this week with a catching headline; ‘Rio Olympics 2016: Cate and Bronte Campbell, from Malawi to world domination’. “From humble beginnings in Malawi, to the […]
It’s always very tough for rookies to survive the intense heat of the TNM Super League as evidenced through this season’s teams — Karonga United and Maxi Bullets, who are at the bottom of the log table together with former old guards, Dwangwa United. But over the weekend, they have shown they can upset the […]
Beta Television started its excusive live broadcast of the TNM Super League in earnest in one of the moves by football administrators to turn Malawian into more professional. And it could not have come on a better weekend but when four of the country’s best teams — Mighty Wanderers, Blue Eagles, Big Bullets and Silver […]
The Presidential Initiative on Sports was a brain child of Malawi’s former Head of State, late President Bingu wa Mutharika in a bid to improve the standards of sports in the country. The budget for it was across the board and, of course, football took a big chunk of it and each sport took the […]
Malawian boxer Isaac Chilemba, though he lost to Russian Sergey Kovalev on Monday night through points, should still be regarded as our hero. He was alone out there in one of the most terrible parts of the world in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He not only lasted the distance but media reports suggest that the judges may […]